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NATIONAL PIZZA CO. v. YOUNG

879 S.W.2d 817 (1994)

NATIONAL PIZZA COMPANY and Lumbermen's Mutual Insurance Company, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. Mary A. Baptist YOUNG, Individually, and as Mother and Next Friend of Amber Marie Young, a Minor, and Robert Terrance Young, II, a Minor, and Roslynn Terrica Young, a Minor, Defendants-Appellees.

Supreme Court of Tennessee, at Jackson.

June 13, 1994.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Katherine M. Anderson, Dale H. Tuttle, McDonald, Kuhn, Smith, Miller & Tait, Memphis, for appellants.

Bernie M. Kustoff and David F. Kustoff, Memphis, for appellees.

OPINION

ANDERSON, Justice.

In this workers' compensation death case, a settlement was reached which provided that dependents' death benefits were to be paid periodically, but did not specify the method by which attorney's fees were to be paid. The trial court ordered the attorney's fees to be paid in lump sum. The issue on appeal is whether the trial court had that power. We conclude that the Workers' Compensation Reform Act of 1992, as amended,

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